Jorgie: I'm so thankful to be a mum after pain of losing my four babies

Star back with makeover show ...and as Theresa in Hollyoaks

- SANJEETA BAINS

The broad smile is still there, and Jorgie Porter also has the glint in her eye and the infectious optimism that helped win our hearts when she competed in I’m a Celebrity.

But the Hollyoaks favourite, who also found fame as the lads’ mag favourite, calendar pin-up and fashion-loving party girl who came runner-up on Dancing On Ice in 2012, has changed.

Now 35, Jorgie is excelling at her most important role to date – mum to seven-month-old son Forest.

It is a role made all the more poignant by her first pregnancy in 2021, when she tragically lost her unborn quadruplets at 14 weeks.

Bouncing Forest on her knee, Jorgie says: “Being a mother is so hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever done. It’s relentless. But I will always, always be thankful I am a mum, no matter how hard it is, because of what happened. It’s given me the gratitude to take each day as it comes and enjoy my family.”

Even on one of her first nights out since Forest’s birth – at the British Soap Awards on June 3 – Jorgie could not wait to get home to her property developer fiance Ollie Piotrowksi, 32, and Forest.

She says: “My old party days – and nights – are mostly gone. And I couldn’t be happier about it.

“I would never want to be that girl again, the one without a care beyond clothes shopping and having a good time. I loved my younger, frivolous years but that’s not me now.

“When Forest was born, I just felt so excited for this new stage in my life. Although, all the late nights were good training for sleepless nights with a baby.”